Improved bag-holder



@anni @Mina NEWTON N. EUGG, or GENEVA, IILLINoI-s.

Letters Patent No. 91,568, dated June 22, 1869:.`

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the saune.`

vented an Improved Bag-Holder; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof', reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and let-ters marked thereon, making apart of this specification, in which-1 Figure 1 is a perspective representation of my im-. "proved bag-holder, as it is attached to a spout.

' Figure 2, an elevation of the same, in position as 4when it is holding a bag in place.

The nature of the present invention consists iu the use of elbow-levers, which are pivotedto la spout and support jaws for clampinga bag fast, and which are so arranged that a bail, also pivoted to the spout, can be made to hold the jaws up or down, as the case may require, as the whole is hereinafter fully shown.

E I) represent relbow-levers, which I generally make of cast-rnetal, and which areA pvoted to lugsG, projecting out from plates F, which are fastened to a spout, M. l

. The lower ends D of these levers support jaws K, which have such'length as will nearly correspond with the width of the spout, and are used to `clamp the mouth' of a bag to it, cleatsx being fastened to the lower end of the spout, to form shoulders, that no teeth or spikes are required on the jaws.

rlhe upper endsE of the levers are made wider than' at the pivot, iu order that when a bail, A, is raised up, it will so clamp them aganstthe spout as to hold the jaws K out'from the cleats, for the purpose of perinitting both handstoy be used in` placing the bag .on ythe spjout. l.

The lower ends D of the levers are also made'wider than at the pivot, in order that when the bail Al is gereed down, it will clamp the jaws K firmly against a This bail is pivoted to bolts I, projecting out from plates H, which are 'fastened to the spout M, and screw-threads of such length ar'ecut on the bolts, that nuts J may be so adjusted as to cause the bail to clamp the elbow-levers D E more or less tightly, as the case may require. v

projecting loop, B, formed on the middle part of l thebail, is used as a hand-hold, for the convenienceV of operating the device.

Operation.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pateut of the United States, is-

In combination with the spout M, the elbow-levers D E, havingl jaws K, said levers being hinged to lugs G on the sides of' the spout, and operated lby the pivoted bail A, all arranged as `herein shown anddescribed.

NEWTON N. RUGG.. Witnesses: v 1

H. L. BENNETT, J. L. 00E. 

